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UNITED FREDERIC w. DYE, or DAYTON, onio.

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.application led April 7,

\\\ Specioation of LettersPate-nt. Patented July 114,191.4..

1914i. .Serial No.830,186. v

To all wlw-m, it may conce-m Be` it known that I, FREDERIC W. DYE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of 'Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartons';'and I do declare the following to be a, full, clear, ano exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new improvements in cartons -or containers cereals such as coffee, etc. l

Paper receptacles in which codec is'sold in packages or small quantities are usually rendered `useless as containers after they are opened by the consumer; that is to say, in packing the coffee or. cereal in the container for distribution, the closures thereof are secured in such a manner that in opening the carton the. said closures are muti. lated more or less and thus become unserviceable as containers for the cereal after they are opened. This is due primarily to the fact that the outermost over-lapping folds or closures are secured to each other throughout their adjacent surfaces by an adheslve and cannot be separated without mutilating one or the other of said folds. l

It is, therefore, the object of the present invention to Vprovide a carton which can be used by the consumer as a container after it is opened. In accomplishing this result, one or the other of the outermost voverlapping folds is provided with a surface which resists the adhesive or glue applied thereto and only those ortions of the surface will adhere to the a jacent over-lapping fold as are not treated in this manner. That is to say, the outermost over-lapping folds will not adhere to each other throughout their adjacent surfaces, but only at such points that are not treated in a manner to resist the 'effect of the glue or adhesive, as will hereinafter more fully appear from the following description in connect-ion with the accompanying drawings of whic Figure 1 is a perspective view of a car-r ton made in accordance with my invention with'the outermost over-lapping closures at one end thereof thrown open; Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view through one or the other and useful for folded. v

In the specification anddrawirgs,"similar reference charactersl indicate corresponding parts.

of the ends of the carton with the"` closures The carton` is formed'of a' suitable-character of heav paper. or light cardboard in rectangular v orm with four sides 1 with over-lapping end folds 3-3 and 5-5. The

each other throughout their areas. and these inner folds are not secured to each other but merely form the innermost closures of. the receptacle. The outermost folds 5--5-, however, completely overlap each other over the inner folds and these outer folds are secured by glue orother suitable adhesive so as to complete the closures of the ends of the carton. In carrying out my invention, the portion of the surfaces of one or the other of the outermost folds 5 or 5 is made to resist the application of the glue or adhesive. For example, the area of thls surface is shown at 6 and invo surface o f the fold 5. margins 4 are free surface 4as well as a central part of the surface 4 so that when the outerfolds are brought together after the application of glue those portions only of the old 5', which have not been provided with the glue-resisting surface, will adhere. The portion or portions of the fold which resistsfthe adesive effect of the lue or other adhesive are made so by surfacing the parts with wax or other substance similar in effect. In the drawings I have shown outer surface provided with a square portion vthereof treated in a manner to resist the adhesive eect of the lue. It will be readily seen, however, that iis glue-resisting surface may be applied to the inner surface of the outermost fold 5 instead of the outer surface of the fold 5. And it will also be clearly seen that the glue-resisting surface may involve other points of the fold, for example, it may be applied` at different points leaving other portions of the surface in a condition to be affected by the glue. In

ves the outer The surrounding either event, there 1s only a portion of the fold that is affected by the glue, therefore, in opening the carton, this glue affected portion may be separated without destroying the entire fold, the object being to only permit such portions of the outermost over-lap lue-resisting from this glue-resisting the fold 5 with its inner folds 3--3 need not necessarilyy overlap ilo ping folds to adhere to each other as may be v necessary to close the carton. In closing the carton for shipment or distribution, the adhesive substance may be applied to the entire inner surface of the outermost over- 5 lappin fold or to the 'entire'surface of the next a jacent innermost fold, but the said -udhesiv'e substance will not cause the ad- Ijacent fold to adhere only atsuch points whe-re the fold is free from the glue-resisting 1 surfaces. v Having described my invention, I claims a new article of manufacture, a carton constructed from a single blank and, having a 'series of overlapping end closure folds, an adhesive covering the entire surface of 1.11 one of said folds adjacent to a surface of the other fold, and means to prevent the action of said adhesive on a substantial portion of said other surface, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature, 20 in the presence of two Witnesses.

FREDERIC W. DYE. 

